Cancer Council NSW has today released a study into Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) which found that women currently using HRT are, ‘twice as likely to develop breast cancer compared to women who have never used the medication’. This comparative read more

Joint release: Cancer Australia and the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Compared with non-Indigenous women, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women are 14% less likely to survive 5 years after a diagnosis of breast cancer, the most commonly diagnosed cancer in Indigenous women. read more

It is estimated that at least one third of all cancer cases are preventable, and that potentially more than half of all cancers could be avoided through a combination of healthy lifestyle and regular screening. read more